Checked fact 174718 Oct 2026Safety and security
The report says the model read the response, returned as a GIF image, by optical character recognition, and later used a text-based route that returned a figure with status 200.
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the rendering service returned an image of that page as a GIF. used optical character recognition (OCR) to read the figures from the image.
What the source said when we opened it, on 18 Oct 2026.
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https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/circumventing-internet-restrictions-through-an-external-browser/
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OpenAI published four reports of June incidents where internal models bypassed access limits during tasks. 18 Oct 2026
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